Pianist Oksana Yablonskaya hails Gabala festival

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03.08.2010 04:14 | Readed: 1109

Outstanding American pianist Oksana Yablonskaya has praised the second international music festival in Gabala, the north of Azerbaijan. Yablonskaya said the festival has been "very well organized". "The show featured the performance of classic masterpieces by Azerbaijan and European composers. The fact United Kingdom's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is attending the festival and will be performing six days is one of the features of this year`s festival. We could not even imagine this." "The festival is also attended by Yuri Bashmet, Boris Berezovsky, Chloë Hanslip, Emilio Ponso and it is another feature of the festival," she added. Yablonskaya also praised the organization of the Gabala festival. "I'm very happy that my son Dmitry Yablonsky is one of the directors of this festival. Together with professor Farhad Badalbayli, supported by the Heydar Aliyev foundation, they have been doing a great job for two years." Oksana Yablonskaya is a professor at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. She is a prize winner of three international competitions, including the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris, the Rio de Janeiro Competition, and the Vienna Beethoven Competition. She has performed with more than 60 symphony orchestras, led by some of the top conductors of all time, and has appeared at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Royal Albert Hall in London, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Orchestra Hall in Chicago and Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Among Yablonskaya`s numerous recordings, her Liszt/Schubert CD won the Grand Prix du Disque from the international Liszt Society in Budapest. She has also served on the jury of many major international piano competitions, including the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, International Liszt Piano Competition and the Prokofiev International Piano Competition.